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Ziggurat of Ur

2100 BCE – 500 BCE · 1,600 years

Massive stepped pyramid temple dedicated to the Sumerian moon god Nanna, one of the best-preserved ziggurats of ancient Mesopotamia

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE)
  2. Ur (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Mitanni (1500 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Arameans (1000 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Achaemenid Empire (500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Empire of Alexander (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Seleucid Kingdom (300 BCE–200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Parthia (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Parthian Empire (1 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Roman Empire (100 CE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Sasanian Empire (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Persia (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Sasanian Empire (500 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Buwayhid Emirates (1000 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Seljuk Empire (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. Khwarazmian Empire (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  19. Ilkhanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  20. Timurid Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  21. Emirate of the White Sheep Turks (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  22. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  23. Mesopotamia (GB) (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  24. Kingdom of Iraq (1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  25. Mesopotamia (GB) (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  26. Iraq (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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559 BCE – 530 BCE

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Baalbek

2000 BCE – still standing

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Saba

Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Phoenician Trade Route

800 BCE – 300 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Campaigns of Thutmose III

1457 BCE – 1425 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2100 BCE and 500 BCE.

2055 BCE Egyptian Reunification (Middle Kingdom) 2030 BCE Fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur 2000 BCE Temple of Karnak 2000 BCE Baalbek 1800 BCE Cave of the Patriarchs

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